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DAY 19

As we come to these last few days of the fast, I just want to encourage you that you
have done a good thing and should expect to receive the benefits of fasting and prayer
for the months and days to come. In addition to our physical and material blessings,
fasting and prayer also has profound spiritual blessings as well.

Fasting and prayer is a total surrender to the will of God for our lives. It is a declaration
that rings true deep within our souls. It is the understanding that there is more and
better in life, although it might not be what we planned or in the way we imagined. It is
dependence on an all-wise God who has purposed us from our mother’s womb.

Fasting and prayer leads us to a place of peace and wholeness - nothing missing,
nothing broken. This is not true because suddenly we have all we’ve ever wanted but
because we are in a never-ending process of submission to God’s direction for our lives.
And, though it’s not always easy, there is no more peaceful place to be than in the will of
God.
I found this quote and thought it would bless you as you are ending your time of fasting
and prayer at the beginning of 2019.
“Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of
sustenance beyond food. Through it, we learn by experience that God’s word to us is
a life substance, that is not food (“bread”) alone that gives life, but also the words that
proceed from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). We learn that we too have meat to eat
that the world does not know about (John 4:32, 34). Fasting unto our Lord is therefore
feasting - feasting on Him and on doing His will. “ ~Dallas Willard

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